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Re: XAWT: First useable (visible) results...
- From: chris burdess <dog at bluezoo dot org>
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:45:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: XAWT: First useable (visible) results...
- References: <3F4BDBA6.4040201@web.de> <3F4BFFE1.3000504@bothner.com>
Per Bothner wrote:
> Whatever overhead might be caused by using Gtk instead of Xlib
> directly is uninteresting on modern PC-class machines.
> In fact, it is quite possible that using Gtk will be faster, even
> ignoring issues of whether Java is as fast as C, just because more
> people are working on Gtk performance than are likely to work on
> AWT-for-GCJ-on-Xlib performance.
that's not the only advantage. gtk-on-x11 is only one application; there
are efforts under way to provide gtk interfaces to directfb, curses, and
possibly other graphical abstraction layers. it looks like this could be
done without the complexity of a system like berlin.
--
chris burdess